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Word: mild (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laxwomen never led in the contest, and after trailing 7-2 at the half put on some mild pressure before succumbing. Sarah Mlezcko had four goals and freshman Sue St. Louis notched two to represent Crimson scoring on the afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday at Yale... | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...short of an archaeological discovery of Atlantis, which seems improbable, it is likely to remain so. King Tut's tomb had more gold and better works of art, but it gives little impression of how Egyptians below Tutankhamun's level lived. Pompeii has everything, even some mild and (by modern standards) charmingly humane pornography. Thus it has been big cultural box office ever since 1834, when Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii created the catastrophe novel as a form of entertainment. ("Alas! Alas!" murmured Ione, "I can go no farther; my steps sink among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Coming of the Pompeians | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

Last month the second trial, too, ended in conviction, but again the sentence was mild: one year in prison for the civil rights violation plus a ten-year suspended sentence for conspiracy. Said U.S. District Judge Ross N. Sterling, a former law partner of ex-Governor John Connally: "A long period of confinement would have little impact on the Houston police department, where I believe the heart of the trouble lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: End of the Rope | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...wasn't so much a test of golf as much as it was a test of survival, and that's unfortunate," said coach Bob Donovan. The windswept. greens were billiard-table slick. "Anything less than a perfect shot to the green or on the green was a mild disaster," Donovan said...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Golfers Flag, Falter in Ivy Tournament | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...boat hasn't come together yet," Pickering, whose Superman feats on the water belie his bespectacled, Clark Kent mild-manneredness, said. "Our timing is off--we're not catching [a term describing the entry of the oars into the water on the stroke] together properly at this point and we're worried about such a hard race this early in our season," the seven-man said...

Author: By Jonathan J. Ledecky, | Title: Harvard Crews Open Regular Season | 4/15/1978 | See Source »

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